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CD Review

on BBC Radio 3

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases.
9.30 Building a Library: David Huckvale recommends a version of Ravel's
Introduction andAllegroirom the available versions, which include the old favourites by the Melos and Nash ensembles, and a historic performance featuring members of the Hollywood Quartet.
10.30 Simon Heighes reviews new releases of Baroque music, including new recordings of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Handel's Apollo and Dafne, plus instrumental music from Belart Antiqua, Les Violons du Roi and Hesperion XX.
11.00 An interview with soprano
Jane Eagien , whose work in the recording studio has included music by Wagner- with period instruments - Bellini's Norma and Strauss's Four Last Songs.
11.35 Radio 3's Disc of the Week:
Prokofiev Love for Three Oranges
Soloists, Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
Producers Andrew Lyle and Mark Lowther
WEB SITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview E-MAIL: cdreview@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: call the Radio 3 Information Line on [number removed] or consult CEEFAX. BBC1, page 651

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
David Huckvale
Unknown:
Simon Heighes
Soprano:
Jane Eagien
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Producers:
Andrew Lyle
Producers:
Mark Lowther

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